This weekend I celebrated my 10 year reunion with my line sisters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. That’s right! Ten years!! Boy how time flies!! I’d been looking forward to this weekend for months! I have a busy life. I’m a “not so stay at home mom”, what I call a fully part-time business owner (my business is only open for part of the workday, but I’m working ALL day), wife, and help often with city events and fundraising efforts. Together my family and I participate in martial arts, help with church activities, partially host Bible study, and the list goes on. It is such a fun and exciting life that is full of love, fun, laughter, challenges, and busyness! I love my life, but this weekend presented a chance to get away (only for a weekend). Yes ma’am. I will take it. So James (my nickname for my line sister and close friend, Jaime) and I packed our bags and headed straight to Dallas for the weekend anticipating lots of laughter, fun, sisterhood, and catching ups. I hadn’t seen some of my line sisters since we graduated from the University of North Texas. Even though Facebook has created a world of being able to keep up with everyone, I looked forward to seeing them behind the “Facebook curtain” (bragbook is my nickname for Facebook). You only get to see the surface of what’s going on in everyone’s lives.
It was great to catch up with everyone. It was so nice to see how mature everyone’s lives have become. We were now mothers, wives, business owners, hard workers, actresses, etc… It was great to hear the success stories, and very heart felt to hear the struggles and life challenges. We were now spread far and wide across the US. Dallas, Houston, Austin, and Los Angeles, California. These were the women I started my journey to womanhood with. We experienced long meetings, crazy parties, careless relationships, our first taste of independence, road trips, and just a little too much fun together. We once cried tears together, fought about silly stuff, and had our first experiences with learning how to run a business. My times with these ladies were, and still are, absolutely priceless. There is a special place in my heart for each one of them. I was so grateful for the opportunity for every single 21 of us to be together again. And yes, we are still the best looking line to come through the Zeta Eta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at UNT (a little something we always say about our line).
Because of this sorority, I have lifelong friendships. Some of these women are my closest friends that I’ve been through everything with. Relationships, marriage, children, and life altering moves. It’s such a blessing to still have the women in my life that I’ve shared all of these experiences with. This sorority has given me so much, and though not fully appreciated before, as I grow older and more mature, I appreciate all that being a part of this sorority has contributed to my life.
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